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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:26:22 -0500 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ``cloneconfig'' target Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Miguel Ojeda >> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote: >>> /proc/config.gz is provided by the kernel and its format is defined by >>> kconfig itself which is, as well, part of the kernel (it is not one >>> random format from a pool of a trillion), so it will be nice if >>> kconfig learns how to read its own configuration from there. >>> >> your point being ? kconfig is not only used by the Linux kernel, and >> you cannot expect the feature to only be used in the cozy Linux kernel >> environment. > > My point was that supporting reading from a .gz file is not anywhere > near "knowing about the trillion file format which exist in the world" > Well, Jeff's patch is already about gzip and bzip2. Soon it will be compress, xz, zip, rar, then rzip, lzma, 7z ... - Arnaud -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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